When It Was Our War: A Soldier's Wife on the Home Front - Hardcover

Stella Suberman

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9780786258987: When It Was Our War: A Soldier's Wife on the Home Front

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ISBN 10: 0786258985 ISBN 13: 9780786258987

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2003

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The untold story of a soldier's wife on the home front. Only nineteen when America enters WWII, Stella Suberman follows her husband from air base to air base -- from Miami to California, Arizona to Kansas -- and gives us a vivid picture of America and its people with a novelistic sense of scene and character.

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About the Author:

Stella Suberman was born in Union City, Tennessee, the setting for her memoir, The Jew Store, and spent her teens in Miami Beach, Florida. After twenty years in North Carolina, she returned to Florida in 1966 as the administrative director of the Lowe Art Museum of the University of Miami. Now retired, she lives in Boca Raton.

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Adult/High School-Suberman's first autobiographical work, The Jew Store (Algonquin, 1999), offered readers a portrait of life in the semirural South of her childhood. The story here takes up with her coming-of-age in Florida and her home-front experiences during World War II. The author's Jewish identity didn't mean much to her when she first met her future husband, Jack Suberman, in college. Although he was not religious, he thought deeply and spoke cogently to her about the fact of their Jewishness-what it meant to their peers, what Jim Crow should mean to Jews, and how to reconsider her own prejudices. Marriage and military service happened almost simultaneously for the young couple. Stella traveled to the West to be with Jack as he trained to be a fighter pilot. They had a son. Jack, like some of their friends before him, shipped out to war. Suberman brings a strong and steady voice to this combination memory and unflinching self-analysis. Reflective teens will learn much about human nature's openness to change and moral growth, without feeling themselves confronted by anything akin to preaching. The author's excellent expository style serves as a model, too, for those wanting to create deeper nonfiction collections for high school students.
Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
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